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New analysis by researchers at the Institute for Fiscal Studies provides a comprehensive assessment of the UK's public finances and the options available to the Chancellor in his November Budget. It shows a defining choice: maintain commitment to a public finance surplus or respond to growing demands for increased public spending.

The TUC warned that the national minimum wage risks leaving younger workers behind, as it gave evidence to the Low Pay Commission yesterday. An increase to the minimum wage will come into force in April 2018, but the new top rate will only apply to workers over 25.

There is overwhelming evidence that human activities are mainly responsible for climate change since the mid-twentieth century, and urgent action is needed to tackle the problem, scientific experts have said.